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19 May 2015, 3:00 am by JB
  I can only think of a few politicians who flatly rejected the relevance of the Founders (Theodore Roosevelt is my favorite), which speaks to the unspoken but still binding rule. [read post]
19 May 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The bully pulpit’s principal practitioners were President Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the term, and the staff of McClure’s Magazine. [read post]
12 May 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
”Upon graduating he briefly taught carpentry in Florida, but in January 1907, during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, he arrived in Washington, DC, to take a job as clerk in the Treasury Department. [read post]
12 May 2015, 7:49 am
"One often encounters "mountebank" in a string of contradictions about a person, for example, Theodore Roosevelt: "He transformed the 20th century; no, he overextended the 19th. [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 7:39 am by Meg Kribble
Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 6:23 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
In a 1905 speech to Congress, President Theodore Roosevelt proposed that corporations be forbidden by law from contributing "to any political committee or for any political purpose. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 2:00 am by Jennifer Baek
  New York City has played a role in the history of many Presidents, even as the birthplace of one – Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 9:50 am by JB
Hoover and Carter also offered themselves as experts who would manage the unruly factions of their party; we can also view antebellum Jacksonian Democrats like James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce as (unsuccessful) coalition managers.To be sure, the strategies of coalition management and renewal are not hopeless: James Polk successfully kept the unruly elements of the Jacksonian coalition together, and Theodore Roosevelt managed to inject a progressive agenda into the Republican… [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 7:37 am
For example, when Theodore Roosevelt became head of the New York Police Commission in the 1890s, he began to strictly enforce laws that required saloons to close on Sundays. [read post]
31 Dec 2014, 5:56 pm
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (1979) [cd, unabridged] 40. [read post]
20 Dec 2014, 7:27 pm
  The historic deal broke an enduring stalemate between two countries divided by just 90 miles of water but oceans of mistrust and hostility dating from the days of Theodore Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill and the nuclear brinkmanship of the Cuban missile crisis. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Jackson: How a "Country Lawyer" Converted Franklin Roosevelt into a Trustbuster, 27 Antitrust 85 (Spring 2013)George Rublee and the Origins of the Federal Trade Commission, 26 Antitrust 106 (Fall 2011)The Election of 1912:  A Pivotal Moment In Antitrust History, 25 Antitrust 82 (Summer 2011)Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft:  Marching Toward Armageddon, 25 Antitrust 97 (Spring 2011)Chief Justice Edward Douglass White and the Birth of the Rule… [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
It was during this time, after all, that Taft somehow managed to rise from his ignominious defeat by both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election to achieve his lifelong goal of becoming chief justice. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, President Theodore Roosevelt delivered his first State of the Union address. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 7:14 am
The top 20 is dominated by Bush (this book, in various, versions as well as "Decision Points"), Theodore Roosevelt, and JFK. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
South Dakota is home to some very large sculptures, including 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore featuring the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 3:08 pm by Edward A. Fallone
” (Theodore Roosevelt, The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics, OUTLOOK, May 12, 1900) Today, the driving force in politics is the cost of television advertising. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 11:14 am
Arthur, black (of course); Grover Cleveland, blue (but only once); Benjamin Harrison, blue; William McKinley, blue-gray; Theodore Roosevelt, blue (come on); William Howard Taft, blue; Woodrow Wilson, blue-gray; Warren G. [read post]